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Breast Cancer. 1994 Jul 30;1(1):43-49. doi: 10.1007/BF02967374.

Parathyroid Hormone-related Protein in Breast Cancer Tissues: Relationship between Primary and Metastatic Sites.

Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan)

Kohno, Kitazawa, Sakoda, Kanbara, Furuya, Ohashi, Kitazawa

Affiliations

  1. Departments of Surgery, Hyogo Medical Center for Adults, 1-7 Kitaoji-cho, Akashi 651, Japan.

PMID: 11091506 DOI: 10.1007/BF02967374

Abstract

The expression of parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) at primary and metastatic sites was studied retrospectively in specimens obtained at opreation and autopsy from 11 patients. The anti-human PTHrP monoclonal antibody, 4B3, was used in the immunohistochemical studies. The 11 cases showed metastases to the liver and the lung, and 9 showed bone metastases at autopsy. At primary sites, PTHrP was positive in the 9 cases with bone metastases, while the other 2 cases were negative for PTHrP. Regardless of the intensities of immunohistochemical staining of PTHrP at primary sites, cancer cells at metastatic sites in the liver and the lung were almost all negative for PTHrP. On the other hand, all PTHrP-positive cases at primary sites at operation showed skeletal metastases at autopsy, and the intensity of the immunohistochemical staining of PTHrP was strongly positive at all the sites of skeletal metastasis. These results suggest that while PTHrP is an important factor that causes cancer cells to erode and grow in skeletal bone, the expression of PHTrP is, concurrently, affected by an osseous microenvironment.

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